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The day I am writing this, I found myself driving past a situation
three short blocks from my home. It looked like a police officer
had caught a teenage boy for something fairly serious -- maybe drugs
or guns in his car, maybe he had stolen a car. The youngster had
his hands hanging straight, but behind him; my first assumption
was he was handcuffed, but now I'm not sure that was the case.
At any rate the kid was quite submissive, and the officer was filling
out a form and asking him questions with a bit of the in-your-face,
angry-patriarch leaning into his subject. And there was small,
intent crowd standing about this fairly busy street
corner.
This is not a criticism of this man at all; he was not abusing this
boy. What struck me was an archetypal image in the way of a very
real boy in very real trouble that he had created. On the one
hand he could have been a seven-year-old who just got caught trying to
figure out how the key works in the ignition of his dad's car and what
fun it would be to actually make it start and surprise him just as he
came to the door to drive off to work. He just looked so
innocent and even contrite. And vulnerable. On the other,
it was probably serious enough that he could get whatever the youth
equivalent of jail is. In that moment I was thinking "jail"
and how, for every such kid who trips far enough across that invisible
line, there is the first steep plunge into the world of hardened
adults -- in jail. And it seems to me, for many that's where the
real life of crime starts that becomes harder to walk away
from. In my city, youth crime is a fairly recent
phenomenon as a big challenge, which it now is, which to me infers we
have far more disenfranchised, angry, wounded, confused, 'lost' kids
everywhere.
"Abraham," channeled by Esther
[and Jerry] Hicks has said that even
the worst possible criminals -- all they really need is
"soothing." If each one could just get the soothing
that cut to the very heart of all that has so wounded hir, heshe would
be whole again.
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This brought to mind an idea for an incredible group project, I first
thought, but let's say, with serious reservations; think through this
with me. Let's see what our collective wisdom will bring out as
the wisest option we make take together as collaborators here.
This is a collective intention to serve the very
highest for our troubled young folks who are self destructive
and criminally causing harm. All
of this will be performed in our highly individual ways. It's
the collective and powerful intention that makes us as ONE, like one
great eagle or angel that wings over the world!
Here's the idea:
At some point every day, each participant who commits to this
will address a plea to Spirit to be of service toward helping
turn around these kids in such a healing, wholeness-making way
that they will be enabled to choose a life free from all that,
to find some form of meaningful work or further education and
healthy relationships that reinforce and reward their
determination not to fall back into their hells. In some
way as part of the "gift" they will experience
Spirit in a very clear, direct way, something they will know
as a guiding force for them for the rest of their lives.
That's important to include as specifically part of one's
intentions.
We each do this with the clear, taken-for-granted awareness
that we are many together as one, like a skydiving team or a
host of angels from all dimensions, focusing on healing
this sad, harmful and frightening issue.
We ask to do this however we may best serve, and we ask for
total protection in what we are about to do, and we ask for
the help, reinforcements and guidance of Spirit in every
aspect of this work together. We give thanks for seeing
these young ones begin to turn their lives around in very
positive, beautiful ways.
For most of us, I am imagining this will be a process of
moving into sleep, falling asleep with the fullness and
expectancy of this intention carrying us to this purpose and
fulfillment. And when we first waken or come out
of the altered state [OBE? remote viewing?
meditation? soul retrieval? hypnotic session? .. ], we
want to bring back any possible memories, details.
Whatever we bring back will be logged in a database for this
purpose.
We will pick a period of time, say three months, to do this
together. Each of us will commit insofar as we feel
comfortable, at least once/week. I would recommend not
everyday, just so you don't burn out, but even that will be a
personal choice.
We will also naturally keep an ear to the ground for any
interesting stories in our communities, in the news, etc.
suggestive of anything that looks evidential of our group
intentions having an impact and also for crime statistics over
the next several months, pretty much anywhere you are.
This should be a useful way to begin, among us as a wide
public interest, to see how we may begin to understand and use
not only group intentionality on this scale, but also
multidimensional collaboration as well, really a bushel of
things we can look at here, such as for starters, does this
really work?
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Some of you may be familiar with, as I understand it, an excellent
experiment years ago performed by [Maharishi Mahesh University??],
something like this. They sent meditators to or worked with
meditators to various major cities, one being Washington. Maybe
one was Paris, not sure of the others. For one month, they
meditated together for I'm not sure how many hours on the purpose of
lowering the crime rates in those cities. I do not recall any
details about anywhere other than DC. During that month, the
crime rates indeed went down, and after the experiment ended, they
went up again to rates comparable to what the rates were prior to that
month.
I do have a concern with this, which is what I want us to reflect on
together first. My understanding is, even with the best of
intentions, we can actually interfere with another's development when
we try to "save" them in some way. What's not
good about wanting to see a wrecked life turned around, right?
Not to mention those who are being victimized. I'm
reminded, 'where Angels fear to tread.' I'm wondering if
there is a way to be quite specific in this, so we don't end up
becoming the metaphorical 7 year-old above who is excitedly trying to
surprise his Dad with his ingenuity -- innocent enough but in
terr-rouble, nonetheless! Perhaps we should be careful to
include in our intentions that we never want to cause harm or threat
to anyone under any conditions, but we do want to have the sought
impact in situations where we can be of greatest benefit. What
do you think?
Before we do this formally, I hope to set up a blog or other means to
let others have input into how to improve this. And/or, could be
a smaller group of us who commit to this behind the scenes will
streamline this, and simply launch it when we are ready. But we
need an effective practice for conducting active discussions that
will be known to everyone who is interested, at whatever times
or dates posted. We also need whatever it takes to be able to
effectively study and report the data.
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